Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Madame Chiang Kai-shek has suffered from a nerve ailment that causes painful skin rashes. Recently, her friends noted a sudden improvement in her condition, asked her what had happened. Reportedly replied Madame: "My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. I advise...
...Skin drums were long banned by the British in order to suppress African tribal traditions, but Trinidad musicians discovered they could make a kind of music with tubes of bamboo. "Bamboo-tamboo" bands competed with each other, thunking large-bore tubes on the ground and whacking smaller sticks together in the air to create a rich polyrhythmic effect; onlookers, unable to resist the compelling beat, would pound anything that would make noise. But by the early '30s bamboo was on its way out-the police had found that the sticks were too likely to be used as weapons. Then...
...served a purpose. When the standard was still a working field dog, the heavy mane around chest and neck protected heart and lungs while swimming in icy water. Shaved hindquarters aided swimming, while tufts of hair on legs and hips warmed the joints where blood runs close to the skin. The fancy topknot and powder-puff tail helped mark the animals when working in dense underbrush...
...body of the M.I.T. freshman who was lost in an initiation stunt a week ago was found yesterday in the Cambridge Reservoir, by a team of skin divers...
...role of Serafina is a juicy acting plum, and Anna Magnani swallows it whole; skin, pit and all. She is little short of overpowering when she goes into one of her frequent states of towering rage, and when she sulks she seems like a fury with nobody but herself to haunt. Best of all are the comic scenes, which she plays with the broad and leering satisfaction of a peasant. Burt Lancaster tries hard as the bachelor-clown, but even in his most successful moments he appears almost pathetically outclassed...